If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Take a few minutes to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher.
b. Describe some of your students' strengths and needs that you have noticed so far.
c. Download and complete this URI Self Evaluation form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Incorporation of reading
It will help them gain better reading skills and more thorough comprehension.
It will boost my SALT report.
Having my student read during class incorporates 9.2
2.
exposing them to careers
It will help them see a future for themselves and help them figure out what they would like to be.
It will give the students something to strive for next year.
1
3.
increase the amount of activities that relate to things connected outside of the classroom
Students will see information as inter-related rather than unconnected information.
The students may become more interested in other disciplines, motivating them to do better.
1
4.
Inform students how the work is related to things outside of school.
Students will be more motivated to learn the subject.
The school will perhaps be able to better respond to their community.
1,2,& 4
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
I plan to increase my ability to give my students tools and resources that they can use to better understand the information and apply it to their daily life. This will be measurable by counting the amount of tools I have given my students. New skills that I will acquire will deal with technology and my ability to scout out resources online, which I can post on a wikispace for other people in the school to use (RIBTS 2.4)
I believe that this is important to get students interested in the information. If they can connect with it and become interested in the material, they will be more inclined to see this information as related to their life instead of stagnant. Students enjoy using tools in class rather than being lectured. This can be observed by watching student participation during activities versus a "teacher-controlled, conversational lecture." The goal will benefit my students by engaging them in the information and helping them apply it to real life and current events.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I plan to video tape myself and analyze it so I can better understand what I am communicating to students while I am up in front of the class. This will help me address my notes on the board, comprehension of my verbal words and my own ability to tie information together. I also think that observing a variety of teachers will help me get a handle on different classroom management strategies that I can encorporate into my class.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Synthesis
If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
You can review the Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards (RIBTs) here.
a. Take a few minutes to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher.
b. Describe some of your students' strengths and needs that you have noticed so far.
c. Download and complete this URI Self Evaluation form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
I plan to increase my ability to give my students tools and resources that they can use to better understand the information and apply it to their daily life. This will be measurable by counting the amount of tools I have given my students. New skills that I will acquire will deal with technology and my ability to scout out resources online, which I can post on a wikispace for other people in the school to use (RIBTS 2.4)
I believe that this is important to get students interested in the information. If they can connect with it and become interested in the material, they will be more inclined to see this information as related to their life instead of stagnant. Students enjoy using tools in class rather than being lectured. This can be observed by watching student participation during activities versus a "teacher-controlled, conversational lecture." The goal will benefit my students by engaging them in the information and helping them apply it to real life and current events.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I plan to video tape myself and analyze it so I can better understand what I am communicating to students while I am up in front of the class. This will help me address my notes on the board, comprehension of my verbal words and my own ability to tie information together. I also think that observing a variety of teachers will help me get a handle on different classroom management strategies that I can encorporate into my class.